Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 471 385 779
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.96% 13.61% 14.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.93% 41.53% 47.53%
Number of salaries quoted 235 307 717
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,150 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,125 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,388 927 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.41% 32.78% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 614 617 1,429
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,900 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +8.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -18 119 £55,000 - 46
Cambridgeshire +6 101 £62,500 +29.53% 30
Essex -8 91 £38,250 -23.50% 51
Suffolk +20 56 £70,000 +43.59% 24
Bedfordshire +12 51 £14,000 -70.53% 14
Norfolk -1 50 £60,000 +100.00% 25
East Anglia - 2 £95,000 - 16
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 32 (6.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.34%) WordPress
4 5 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.06%) CMS
5 3 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 61 (12.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.91%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.91%) Dynamics GP
2 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 116 (24.63%) Microsoft 365
2 92 (19.53%) Power Platform
3 90 (19.11%) AWS
4 65 (13.80%) Entra ID
5 60 (12.74%) Azure AI
6 24 (5.10%) GitHub
7 22 (4.67%) GCP
8 20 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.82%) Snowflake
10 17 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (3.61%) PowerApps
11 16 (3.40%) SaaS
12 15 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (2.97%) Power Automate
14 11 (2.34%) IaaS
15 9 (1.91%) OneDrive
15 9 (1.91%) PaaS
16 6 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
17 5 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (1.06%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 72 (15.29%) Firewall
2 26 (5.52%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.31%) VPN
3 25 (5.31%) WAN
4 22 (4.67%) DHCP
5 21 (4.46%) DNS
6 19 (4.03%) LAN
7 17 (3.61%) Internet
8 9 (1.91%) VLAN
9 8 (1.70%) WLAN
10 6 (1.27%) Wireless
11 5 (1.06%) SAN
11 5 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.85%) DMZ
12 4 (0.85%) Network Security
12 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.64%) Broadband
14 2 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
15 1 (0.21%) NetScaler
15 1 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (17.41%) Power BI
2 60 (12.74%) Tableau
3 20 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 17 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.70%) MySQL
8 7 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.27%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.27%) Redis
10 5 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.85%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.64%) Big Data
13 2 (0.42%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.42%) Looker
13 2 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (3.82%) Git
2 10 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.85%) JIRA
4 2 (0.42%) MLflow
4 2 (0.42%) MSTest
4 2 (0.42%) NUnit
4 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.42%) TestNG
5 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 235 (49.89%) Social Skills
2 57 (12.10%) Finance
3 26 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.67%) Law
5 16 (3.40%) Multimedia
6 12 (2.55%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (2.34%) Publishing
8 9 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.27%) Marketing
10 6 (1.27%) Retail
11 5 (1.06%) Legal
12 4 (0.85%) Banking
12 4 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.42%) Advertising
14 1 (0.21%) Police
14 1 (0.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 129 (27.39%) Analyst
2 116 (24.63%) Junior
3 112 (23.78%) Junior Analyst
4 67 (14.23%) IT Support
5 57 (12.10%) Security Analyst
6 56 (11.89%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 56 (11.89%) Data Analyst
6 56 (11.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 56 (11.89%) Junior Security Analyst
7 44 (9.34%) Architect
8 41 (8.70%) Developer
8 41 (8.70%) Senior
9 33 (7.01%) IT Engineer
9 33 (7.01%) Support Engineer
10 32 (6.79%) Ethical Hacker
11 28 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
13 26 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
14 25 (5.31%) Lead
15 22 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.58%) CSS
2 24 (5.10%) HTML
3 20 (4.25%) .NET
4 13 (2.76%) REST
5 11 (2.34%) React
6 9 (1.91%) .NET Core
7 8 (1.70%) SOAP
8 7 (1.49%) jQuery
9 6 (1.27%) ASP.NET
9 6 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (1.27%) JSON
10 5 (1.06%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.06%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.06%) Vue
11 4 (0.85%) Kafka
11 4 (0.85%) ML.NET
11 4 (0.85%) Node.js
11 4 (0.85%) RESTful
11 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.85%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.79%) Cyberattack
2 27 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.12%) Driving Licence
6 8 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.70%) Low-Code
7 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.27%) Robotics
8 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.06%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.06%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.85%) Blog
9 4 (0.85%) Clustering
9 4 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 101 (21.44%) Windows
2 66 (14.01%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
4 13 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.91%) Android
7 7 (1.49%) Linux
7 7 (1.49%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.06%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (30.57%) Cybersecurity
2 96 (20.38%) Mentoring
3 91 (19.32%) AI
4 83 (17.62%) Business Intelligence
5 70 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (12.10%) Agile
7 46 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (8.92%) DevOps
9 41 (8.70%) ITIL
10 34 (7.22%) CI/CD
10 34 (7.22%) Customer Service
11 33 (7.01%) Roadmaps
12 32 (6.79%) Analytics
12 32 (6.79%) Ethical Hacking
13 30 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (6.16%) ERP
14 29 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (5.94%) Software Engineering
16 24 (5.10%) Data Modelling
17 22 (4.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (21.23%) SQL
2 98 (20.81%) Python
3 37 (7.86%) C#
4 35 (7.43%) PowerShell
5 32 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.97%) PHP
7 13 (2.76%) R
8 11 (2.34%) Java
9 8 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.49%) C++
11 5 (1.06%) Bash
12 3 (0.64%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 181 (38.43%) Azure Certification
2 57 (12.10%) CompTIA CySA+
2 57 (12.10%) CompTIA Security+
3 47 (9.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 44 (9.34%) Degree
5 37 (7.86%) Security Cleared
6 32 (6.79%) CEH
7 31 (6.58%) AWS Certification
8 23 (4.88%) SC Cleared
9 16 (3.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 16 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (2.34%) CCNA
11 11 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.70%) CCNP
13 5 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.85%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.85%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.85%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 11 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.12%) GDPR
3 10 (2.12%) QA
4 7 (1.49%) GRC
4 7 (1.49%) NIST
5 5 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 4 (0.85%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.85%) NCSC
6 4 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.21%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (18.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (4.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.18%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.55%) Docker
6 7 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.85%) vSphere
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (9.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.12%) Terraform
4 9 (1.91%) Ansible
5 4 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.85%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.85%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.64%) SCCM
7 2 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.42%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 325 (69.00%) Microsoft
2 88 (18.68%) ForeScout
3 28 (5.94%) VMware
4 18 (3.82%) SAP
5 12 (2.55%) Databricks
5 12 (2.55%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.55%) SolarWinds
6 11 (2.34%) Cisco
6 11 (2.34%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.34%) Workday
7 10 (2.12%) Google
8 8 (1.70%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.49%) Apple
9 7 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.27%) Aruba
10 6 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (1.27%) Epicor
10 6 (1.27%) Pega
11 5 (1.06%) Sophos